St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-28
The PeculiaPitieS Of Senators
Sawyer and Stanford, Who
Love Each Other.
How Little Gen. Wheeler, Of
Alabama, Made the Speaker
Recognize Him.
Striking Resemblance Be-
tween Reed, of Maine, and
Photographer Bell.
The Colored People Indignant
--PlanS Of Macdonald and
Rice--OtheP Matters.

SPECIAL 10 me GLOBE
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Saw
yer is as big man as Stanford, of Cali
fornia. Together they are the pOrtlieSt
men in the senate. The twain would
outweigh Salisbury, SpoOner, Davis
and Frye, and give them odds to boot.
Sawyer'S corporation would be a credit
to a Chicago Doodle alderman. He is
not garrulous. but as he grows older he
grows fOnder of gOSsips and chats with
his associates. Generous to a fault,
nothing but safe and sagacious invest
ments have saved him from penury. 1t
Is estimated by intimate friends that he
eXpends not less than $1,000 a year in
small charities. He never makes
speech 1t would be impossible
for him to do so, even if he tried, and
that IS the reason he never makes the
effort. Uncle Philetus is not an mis-
fatuus hunter He will not try impOs-
SibilitieS.
Stanford. the California cOrpulent
cosmopolitan congressional heavy
weight, resembles the late Gen. Grant.
He j. the best posted man on railroad
affairs in either house of congress. AL
though grown into physical greatness,
he is supplemented as child. He does
not like his place in the senate. They
say he wanted the honor of an election
to the senate. and his desire was of
course gratified. No sooner was he
seated than he found himself on par
with inferior men, from his point of
view. In the railroad world Leland
Stanford is a king. No one disputes his
Judgment and beliefs. Here in the senate
he finds Edmunds. Colquitt. Harris, Alli-
sOn-Others. too, who know little about
railroads and great financial affairs: yet
tlese fellows are his peers on all queS-
onS. Leland Stanford considers them
rather small men to place upon par
with himself. 1t is not egOtiSm on his
part. either. 1t is force of habit and as
SOciatiOnS. He is gOOd-natured old
man. anu every one likes him. He will,
however. soon resign. There is a Re
publican governor of California. and his
successor can be appointed without Diet
riment to his party. If he TetireS it will
go hard with Uncle Phil Sawyer for
while. OF all the men in the senate
Stanford has a greater love for Sawyer.
He finds in the old Wisconsin senator
a crude business man who has gained
a competence by hard knocks. He
is sorry that so good a man as Sawyer
should spend his last days in the senate;
but he loves him just the same. They
like the same kinds of wine, too, and
smoke the same brands of cigars.
Gen. Wheeler is the smallest. as well
as shOrte-t t. man i'll the house. He
i a very little man indeed. but an intel
lectualiSt not inferior TO Alexander ii.
Stephens. Wheeler was a lieutenant
general before he was twenty-four
years Of age, and at one time he
commanded the entire Confederate
cavalry, Federal officers always
regarded him as a dangerous man
to meet upon the field. In congress he
Is quiet and unObtrusive. but whenever
there is any measure before the house
in which he is especially interested. he
Is heard. Nothing can daunt him. One
morning. when the house assembled at
IL O'Clock. he called. Mr. Speaker"
but was not recognized At intervals he
called upon the speaker, but was ig-
nored. He had bill of some impor-
tance to Alabama, and he had made up
his mind to introduce it. He stood
around for three hours. Other members
were constantly dropping out and going
down to the restaurant Tor lunch. Little
Gen. Wheeler stood his ground and
finally walked down in front of the
speakers desk and shouted, "AIT.
Speaker. I'm here to introduce bill,
and the sooner | am recognized the bet
ter it will be for this house." He was
recognized. Randall was speaker. lie
didn't know what Wheeler intended
doing: but he knew that he had fOrmu-
lated some plan of disturbance or he
would not nave been so aggressive. 1t
WAS afterwards learned that Wheeler
had intended raising row on the floor
which would have teTTOriZed everybody.
The details of it were never made pub
lie. He has never since had any trouble
in getting that evaneScent thing, the
speakers eye"
Stewart, of Texas. is the tallest man
in congress. Ingalls, the thnneSt. Barnes
the heaviest. The intellectualist on the
Republican side of the house is Tom
Reed. of Maine, and Sunset Cox is the
brainieSt man on the Democratic side.
Reed looks like the photographer Bell,
of this city. Not infrequently they are
mistaken. Occasionally the congress
man meets a man who will thank him
profusely for the excellent likeness
which he has taken: while the congress-
mans bills have been presented to Bell
on the street by collectors who ought to
know better.